A new report from the Department of Labor raises tough questions about whether and to what extent forced labor and child ...

Papua New Guinea has made the list of top cobalt producers by country for the sixth year in a row. In 2023, the small country off the coast of Australia produced 2,900 MT of cobalt as a by-product of ...

African countries must avoid the mistakes of the fossil-fuel industrial revolution; the mining of cobalt, lithium, manganese, ...

VIOLENCE and insecurity have led to the closure of more than 14 000 schools in Central and West Africa. This has impacted the learning of hundreds of thousands of children across the regions. The Norw ...

In West and Central Africa, more than 14,000 schools have been forced to close due to violence and insecurity as of June 2024, impacting the learning of hundreds of thousands of children across the ...

Across the Sahelian countries of Burkina Faso and Mali as well as Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), school closures affected ... or exposed to severe protection risks such as child ...

Through its “debt trap diplomacy,” China became the major shareholder controlling most of African natural resources, ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo, or DRC, has faced decades of overlapping ... a role in preventing and ending the worst forms of child labor and other human rights abuses that can occur at ...

Rwanda is accused of supporting the M23 militia, which has been accused of war crimes and forced recruitment of child soldiers, in DRC. It denies doing so. MPs were ordered to declare it was a ...